Athyna is a San Diego talent-matching platform, founded in 2019, for startups and scaling companies hiring remote professionals. It uses AI to connect them with vetted candidates, with a particular focus on talent from Latin America.
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Startup Recruiting Firms in Latin America
Hiring nearshore for time-zone overlap? Compare Latin America recruiting firms for US and European startups, including Terminal, Athyna, Hire With Near and GENTY recruitment, and check who handles local compliance and payroll.
11 of the 95 recruiting firms for startups tracked on Startup Recruiting Firms cover Latin America, as of October 14, 2026. The featured partner, Recruitmint, is pinned first when it qualifies; every other row is alphabetical, unpaid, and drawn from public information.
Latin America region tag covers firms sourcing candidates across countries like Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico for US and European startups, typically pitched on time-zone overlap and cost relative to domestic hiring. Terminal builds nearshore engineering teams across Latin America, Canada, and Europe for growth-stage companies. Athyna uses an AI-matching platform to connect startups with vetted remote professionals concentrated in Latin America. Hire With Near handles sourcing, vetting, and compliance for US startups hiring Latin American talent, and GENTY recruitment works across 14 LATAM countries offering IT, sales, RPO, and executive search. Teilur Talent and Ventes Search round out the list with nearshore staffing and GTM search reaching into the region. Compliance is the detail that trips up first-time nearshore hirers: contractor-versus-employee classification rules vary by country, and a firm that just sources candidates without handling local payroll or compliance can leave you exposed. Ask a Latin America-focused recruiter directly whether they handle (or partner for) local compliance and payroll, or whether that's left entirely to you once a candidate is selected.
Which recruiting firms for startups serve Latin America?
Advertiser disclosureFeatured partner pinned first and labelled; every other company is listed alphabetically. No paid placement.
| Company | Headquarters | Specialties | Size | Best for | Website |
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Athyna
Latin America, Remote/Global
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San Diego, USA | Boutique | Talent Advisory | Visit | |
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GENTY recruitment
Latin America
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Buenos Aires, Argentina | Boutique | Sales Recruiting | Visit | |
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Hire With Near
North America, Latin America
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Austin, USA | Mid-size | Talent Advisory | Visit | |
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Lupa Hire
Latin America, North America
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— | Boutique | Tech Recruiters | Visit | |
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Magenta
Latin America, Remote/Global
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— | Boutique | Early-Stage Startups | Visit | |
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Marathon Talent
Latin America
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— | — | Embedded Recruiting | Visit | |
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MBI Talent Group
Latin America, North America
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— | — | Fractional Recruiting | Visit | |
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Shields Group Search
North America, Latin America
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New York, USA | Boutique | Executive Search | Visit | |
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Teilur Talent
Latin America
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Claymont, Delaware, USA | Boutique | Talent Advisory | Visit | |
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Terminal
North America, Latin America
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San Francisco, USA | Mid-size | Embedded Recruiting | Visit | |
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Ventes Search
North America, Latin America
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Austin, TX, USA | Boutique | Executive Search | Visit |
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11 shownGENTY recruitment is a Latin America-focused recruitment agency helping US and European startups hire tech, sales, and leadership talent across 14 LATAM countries, offering IT recruitment, sales recruitment, RPO, and executive search services.
Hire With Near is an Austin staffing and recruiting agency, founded in 2021, for U.S. startups hiring remote professionals in Latin America. It handles sourcing, vetting, and compliance support.
Lupa Hire is a tech recruiting agency placing pre-vetted engineers and digital professionals from Latin America with US companies, offering recruiting, staffing and RPO and sending curated shortlists of 3-4 candidates per role.
Magenta is a remote staffing and recruiting agency that helps founders and high-growth startups hire full-time and virtual-assistant talent from Latin America, with full-cycle candidate management and a proprietary LATAM candidate database.
Marathon Talent is a LATAM-focused recruiting and Talent-as-a-Service firm. It offers full-cycle recruitment, fractional people and talent strategy where a consultant embeds with the client's team, plus salary and market studies, for US companies hiring bilingual talent in Latin America.
MBI Talent Group offers executive search, tech and sales recruiting, and a Fractional Headhunters service in which an experienced headhunter embeds with a client's team on a flexible monthly basis. Its site says it pioneered the fractional model in Latin America and lists offices including Querétaro, Guadalajara, Monterrey, Buenos Aires, Madrid, Milan, and San Jose, CA.
Shields Group Search is a New York City-based executive recruiting firm specializing in startup and scale-up hiring, providing executive and technical talent acquisition for venture-backed companies from Seed through Series C across SaaS, fintech, healthtech, and Web3.
Teilur Talent is a nearshore staffing agency connecting US and Canadian companies with pre-vetted tech professionals across Latin America, covering software engineering, design, and other technical roles through an in-house vetting and matching process.
Terminal is a San Francisco engineering hiring platform for growth-stage technology companies. It places full-time, contract, and contract-to-hire software engineers, AI/ML developers, dedicated teams, and engineering managers in nearshore and offshore markets across Canada, Latin America, and Europe, and also offers employer-of-record services.
Boutique retained executive search firm focused exclusively on Go-To-Market leadership hires (CRO, CCO, VP Sales, Head of GTM) for founder-led, PE-backed, and venture-funded companies primarily in the US and Canada, with cross-border reach into Latin America.
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Questions buyers ask
How many recruiting firms for startups cover Latin America?
11 of the 95 companies in this directory. The list is compiled from public information and refreshed as companies change.
How is this list ordered?
The featured partner, Recruitmint, which publishes this directory, is pinned first and labelled. Everyone else is alphabetical. Position is not for sale.
Do companies pay to appear on this page?
No. Inclusion is free and unpaid. Recruitmint is the only company with a commercial relationship to this site, and it is disclosed on every page.